Yes, Orlowski likes to beat up DRM. But only The Reg and The Wall Street Journal were clueful enough to
quote the SoundScan report that shows digital song sales have stopped growing for everyone, not just Apple.
Speaking to The Register, Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff warned against extrapolating too much from the figures.
It may reflect a seasonal bounce that hasn't yet manifested itself. However, it might not.
"There's no indication of enormous growth coming," he told us. "When you look at this alongside the SoundScan numbers, you may ask 'Where's the part were we're supposed to get excited?'."
The MSM notices the "collapse" but not the WARNING signs written all over it. The funds then read the MSM, and call Forrester in a flap. Forrester panics.
Meanwhile the Apple fanboys - last seen trying to jail Nick de Plume at ThinkSecret - say, "Nothing to worry about here, folks, move along..."
You won't pay a tax if you don't use your PC for music. If you'd RTFA, you'd see that's what Jenner thinks too:
If you don't have a computer, you don't have the internet, you don't have a 3G phone - and you don't listen to music - you're not going to pay!
For the rest of us, $3 a month is a small price to pay to get rid of DRM, to consume all the digital music we want, and to fuck the big labels' distribution monopoly for good.
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Is the 2006 collapse a trend? We don't know yet:
The MSM notices the "collapse" but not the WARNING signs written all over it. The funds then read the MSM, and call Forrester in a flap. Forrester panics.
Meanwhile the Apple fanboys - last seen trying to jail Nick de Plume at ThinkSecret - say, "Nothing to worry about here, folks, move along..."
Can't the MSM do original research any more?
Expert A: The world is FLAT!
Expert B: The world is spherical, but more distorted due to the gravitational forces of surrounding objects, which I can explain right here...
Expert A: No, dude, the world is FLAT!!
Experts huddle: Let's form a consensus.
Wikipedia Consensus Emerges: "OK, let's agree the world is flatt-ish, and round-ish, and all shapes in between!"
Dude, I feel sorry for you if you can't figure out what shape your planet is... Get a clue
I guess the guy marking this didn't realize we're laughing at him, not with him.
For the rest of us, $3 a month is a small price to pay to get rid of DRM, to consume all the digital music we want, and to fuck the big labels' distribution monopoly for good.
Have fun out there...
Lessig has got pretty wealthy telling everyone else to give away their stuff for nothing.
No one reports to Tim. But no one can get him to do any work either.
The other guy is an ass in a hat who likes to suck up to his management.
No contest.